Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railway Co. v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Cook county, dismissing the bill of appellants, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company and the Pennsylvania Company, for an injunction restraining the city of Chicago and its commissioner of public works from interfering with the construction, maintenance and operation by the complainants of a switch or side-track across Seventy-fifth street and Greenwood avenue. The question in the case is, whether the railroad companies had a right to construct a switch across these streets without first obtaining a permit from the…